Re: on imposition and local or external files

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

luigi scarso wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com 
> <mailto:taco@elvenkind.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
>      > Hi there,
>      >
>      > I would like to use imposition to rearrange an existing PDF as a
>      > booklet, but I don' have ConTeXt installed on the machine I would
>     like
>      > to do it.
>      >
>      > Using http://live.contextgarden.net/ might do the job, but I have
>      > problems to load the local file.
>      >
>      > Is there any way to load a local file (or even an URL) with
>     ConTeXt? How
>      > should I rewrite the following command to load a local file or an
>     URL in
>      > ConteXt live?
> 
>     In mkii, this is simply impossible.
> 
>     If you have the program "curl" installed, you can use an url as a
>     file name in context mkiv.
> 
> curl as os.spawn ?
> Why don't use lua-curl
> http://luaforge.net/projects/lua-curl/

we have the socket library and at some point i'll rewrite the code to 
use that

Hans


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